Loading App Configuration in the APP_INITIALIZER
If you’re anything like me, you’ve been placing the configuration for your Angular app in the environment.ts file, and then copying that… Continue reading on ngconf »
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Angular Testing: Component Testing
Overview In the previous article, I defined “Unit Testing” and how we can apply those tests to our Angular application. We agree that, by definition, our business logic should live outside of our components, and most of our functionality will live in pipes, directives, and services, meaning most of our unit tests will test those …
Angular Dynamic Component in Material Dialog
Base image by Peggy und Marco Lachmann-Anke from Pixabay How can you inject a dynamic, lazy-loaded component into a Material Dialog at runtime? First, let me say that this might be overkill in many cases. Basic OO can often solve this kind of problem. But if you need to lazy-load a component at runtime and show that …
Use Data To Style Your Angular Components
Photo by Lukas Blazek on Unsplash When working on the UI, it is common to have data drive our styling. For example, in a grid of financial data, we could have negative numbers in red and positive numbers in green. Another common request is to style data based on its position. For example, this grid from …
Fun with GitHub Copilot #6 (Sample Data)
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Reactive Forms Benefits: Validators
Form validation is an important part of the process when getting information from people in an application. We want to make sure that they… Continue reading on ngconf »
Meetups: Don’t Just Take Our Word For It
>> The Angular Community Meetup’s BIG announcement and why attending programming meetups is definitely worth your time << If you’ve ever wondered why attending a meetup for developers is worth your time, I can relate. Before attending my first meetup, and even for a while after, I wondered what the real value was and if I …
Angular Testing: Unit Testing
In my previous article, I defined the different types of testing you will typically see in a (well-tested) Angular application. The article describes each testing strategy at a high level; however, several people have asked me to go deeper. I certainly see the need for it. For example, many people have felt their component tests …
Fun with GitHub Copilot #5 (Ionic)
Using Copilot to Help Build Ionic Framework Apps Continue reading on ngconf »